 Hello. Good afternoon. I would like to start my speech by explaining to you what was my will to elaborate study on female volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. And having chosen this topic, well, I must say that it was my personal interest towards the feminine resistance against Frankism. And my interest was related to studying construction of gender identities, trying to get some distance of the translation of these by an imaginary and wrong imaginary that fell on traditional models. Also, the existence of primary sources in a platform such as seed brain makes this exceptional field of study, given the fact that from which story we can create knowledge and giving answers to the phenomenon of international volunteers, both female and male, in civil wars, specifically from the gender viewpoint. This study was created because we wanted to reflect the relation, the possible relation of the potential transgression that these women were main character or generated. And if the country, their experience had to do with the role in society at the moment. Another issue we thought of was to think of whether these women could be considered active subjects of history or they were merely people accompanying their loved ones and actually they were unconsciously traveling with them to this war in a foreign country. Let's remember that this study, even though it is necessary, it doesn't come with an extents broad bibliography. The very scarce resources we have available actually are based on bibliographical abstract or fragments they left as memoirs. And thankfully, thanks to seed brain and other similar projects, we have a great support for researchers because we have information in a very clear and accurate way. And also the database that we created thanks to Lourdes Prada's work has been devoted specifically to female international volunteers and 250 women have been introducing this database. They are around 40% of the volunteers recorded in seed brain. It's quite a significant sample, but I would like to say that these conclusions are not arbitrary. And what I mean is that they are worth, we should reanalyze these conclusions indeed. Whatever the case, this was the database. It's one of the many examples. We wanted to define a very general profile of volunteers because they came in, because of three different reasons. One of them being already residents here in Spain and being already party of left-wing syndicalist organizations or political parties. Secondly, people who came for the People's Olympiad in Barcelona. And thirdly, when they enrolled directly to the international brigade. International solidarity was a task carried out by many women from their own homelands without having traveled here. But it was the first way of women participation in war being, you know, given this solidarity, they sort of break this feminine archetype of caters and nurses because in general, female solidarity was defined as sorority and the cater role. But there were many women who actually organized this female solidarity, for example. The reason why some of these women actually participated in an active way in the Spanish Civil War was the fight against fascism and the defense of freedom because they believed the Spanish Civil War was a just war, a fair one. And they understood the situation happening before in the Spanish Republic and also in that war conflict context. They believed it was a great scenario to work towards female liberation. So those changes here happened really quickly compared to other contexts where the status quo didn't change. So there's a relationship between feminism and anti-fascism. Some female authors believe that some of these women lived a sort of transition moment in their lives, the end of a love relationship or their career or studies. It's quite a sort of radical idea because we don't have primary sources actually stating this fact. There is a common idea of a better world. Melianism in the sense of meliorism, sorry, in the sense of improving the world because most of these women came from Western countries, mainly Europe, and we also find women coming from non-European countries such as former colonies, the States, Canada, South America, etc. Places where these volunteers, either men or women, would quickly identify themselves with the republican claims and the republican main ideas because they defended liberalism. Most of these women were between 20 and 35, 39 years of age. Not all of them belonged to the working class. We find those women belonging to a sort of middle range or even bourgeoisie with sort of mid level of studies, high school or even university studies. With regards to their civil status, most of them were married. A few of them were widows and we believe we want to have the sort of unknown label to the women of which we don't know their civil status. We don't really know whether there are single women, but maybe they didn't want to talk about it. The same with their ideology, some of them have been labeled as unknown, but for some of them say the label committed or engaged because they wanted to highlight their humanitarian ideals far beyond any other ideology. Some of them did actually speak about their political ideas, so they were either communists, anarchists or socialists, being anarchists the majority. In any case, all these women acted to defend liberties and as for the roles they actually took on had to do with, this had to do with caring for victims. A minority went to the front or actually took important decisions at the brigade's structure. Some of them, as I said, decided to care for victims or have played a more of a maternal role. This is what it was thought or expected from a woman in war. Also, we have a few interpreters and translators and this labor, this work, sorry, has to do with women who belong to mid or upper classes, who already had a solid education, not only the knowledge of languages, but also some of their studies, which helped play this role. And also traveling to a country in war was already a transgression because they were their own owners of their decision-making process and they dared to access this war context, which was always related or seen in a masculine way. So this transgression actually it empowered them because normally women were relegated or they had to do, in a compulsory way, some tasks always related to the charitable world or as carers, as we said. So this becomes them active subjects in history, which were totally conscient of the decisions they took. We shouldn't really see them as adventurous and girls looking for summer loves jumping onto these dangerous situations. No, no, no, they were very conscious of the situation and they were very independently and autonomously taking these decisions precisely because of this political and humanitarian link or beliefs they had. And again, empowering as a collective, this is very, very new because women have not seen before in wars before. The war is again this space where women is empowered. They are identified as a collective forever because they share this vital experience and brands them forever. Thank you very much.